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…or leak a signal chat
In the face of fascism we’re all underpaid idiots
*Overpaid
I know a federal government employee who spent over half a day writing their “5 things you did last week” email. It seemed like a very important task coming from high up in the administration, so they wanted to take the time to make sure it was done right.
The problem is, if they’re in one of the positions the fascists wanted to remove, they likely want that work disrupted; so you’re accomplishing their goal that way.
Fortunately they are in a role that the fascists are trying desperately to keep. So it’s kind of funny.
When I was in the Army, deployed to Afghanistan, a bunch of junior soldiers (E-4 and below) came in from the field and wanted to get paid. They needed to wait in line at my little office inside of a hardened building. They were talking amongst themselves in the hall while they waited their turn. There were probably 50 of them. A master sergeant (E-7) came in and started yelling at the soldiers telling them to behave like soldiers and get next to the wall and wait quietly without talking. All the soldiers snapped to attention and went silent in a tight single file line against the wall. This dickhead master sergeant then walked past all of the soldiers who had been waiting in line, walked up to the front counter of my office and submitted some paperwork to have his housing allowance changed back in the states because his dependents had moved. I didn’t have the rank to argue with him so I smiled and gave him the most polite customer service you could expect from a military finance office. As soon as he left, I put his paperwork directly into the paper shredder (a crime). My fellow finance soldiers saw me do it and laughed. Fuck him for using his rank to cut in line. A non-commissioned officer should put the junior soldiers first and never use their rank to get special privileges. His paperwork got lost. It happens.
This is why I wouldn’t have passed army training. I’m not about to let someone take the piss cause they have a higher rank than me, without me challenging that. Right is right at end of the day and this cunt would be told as much before I got fired.
I want to be clear I am not calling you out for what you did, just adding what I believe I would have done. I lost so many jobs on this hill too.
Good work.
this isn’t even a meme, there are politics communities for this kind of thing.
you know a meme is just anything that gets shared, duplicated, replicated, or repeated, right? calling things memes is a meme. society is a meme. civilization is a meme. Dee’s Nuts being overly salted is a meme
I know that, but since internet meme became I thing it has gained a second definition as a type of joke, which is the meaning intended in the names of meme communities. there are places for politics (including political memes) and this is not one of them.
An Internet meme is more than just “a type of joke”.
as long as there’s no rule against politics (and there isn’t) i don’t think i can bring myself to agree with this stance
Whether this fits your definition of a meme or not, this is the kind of thing that needs to be shared as widely as possible.
The world needs this kind of support from as many people as possible right now.
is it really so much to ask to discuss politics on communities that are meant for it? I know it may be hard to understand but some people don’t want to spend every waking moment sorting through other people’s political views (whether they agree or not). let the areas that are for funny shit only be only funny shit, there are places for political statements and this isn’t one of them. honestly at least make the political thing a meme if you’re going to put it in a meme community this post was just a statement.
Take another look at the comm name.
there are politics communities for political stuff, it meme communities are meant for funny stuff.
It’s a screen cap from a micro blog in a micro blog comm.
And just because you don’t find it funny doesn’t mean it isn’t.
it’s not a meme at all, it’s just a statement. it has to be a microblog meme, not just a microblog.
Huh, well everyone else here seems to think you’re wrong.
And this hits a number of things that makes it a meme as others pointed out.
Have your opinion. You’ve voiced your opinion. I promise to forget all about this exchange if you understand that people are disagreeing with you and are allowed to. Otherwise one of us is going to end up blocking the other after we waste each other’s time.
“promise to forget all about this exchange” as if that matters at all on social media
So you have choosen annoyance. Really dude.
Very early in my career I realized how much a business (or any organization) depends on heroes to survive crises. You can make up as many procedures as you want, but when shit starts hitting fans the people who save your organizational ass are the ones who skip their mandatory breaks, come in all weekend during the crunch, and figure out what to do when there’s no procedure. The best way to sabotage MAGAcism in a crisis is work as slowly as you can get away with, and follow procedures exactly no matter how poorly they fit the situation.
The CIA wrote a manual on how to do this. It’s a bit old and parts of it are outdate for some times of work, but a lot of it is still useful.
- Misunderstand orders. Ask endless questions or engage in long correspondence about such orders
- Insist on perfect work in relatively unimportant products
- Hold conferences when there is more critical work to be done (some might say normal businesses do this as a matter of course…)
- Bring up irrelevant issues as frequently as possible
This is also the perfect manual for how to cosplay as energy vampire Colin Robinson.
is it? i think we need to hold a meeting to discuss the merits of using this as a manual for cosplaying as the energy vampire Colin Robinson. And for that matter the merits of using it as a manual for cosplaying as any other energy vampire. In fact i think we should make this a weekly standup to ensure continued validity of using it as a manual for cosplaying as energy vampires, Colin Robinson or not. I’ll schedule it for monday morning.
Shit, 80% of the people I work with must have read that manual then. That’s a near daily occurrence.
Good for them
Every web project manager I’ve ever had apparently lived by this manual.
“What about the droid attack on the wookies?”
What about the flamethrower attack on the Geonosians?
I’m pretty sure this is our company policy
This is why the stormtroopers all miss
When I worked in the private sector every mistake was percieved as malicious intent by management.
just compliment their tie while you’re doing it. their egos can’t focus on two things at a time. Especially when there is a compliment boost in the room.
That’s a sign of toxic management that almost always indicates incompetence.
Strike sabotage slowdown.
can’t wait to be accused of being a collaborator just because i’ve been peter principled into a position i don’t understand
That’s the neat thing about dictatorships, your behavior is completely irrelevant to how you are treated. If they want to end you, they don’t need a justification.
peter principled?
The Peter principal is the idea that anyone good at their job will keep getting promoted until they are no longer any good at the job they were promoted to. The idea is that anyone who has been in any position for any significant amount of time must be terrible at it otherwise they would have gotten promoted to a different position already.
Personally I think it definitely applies to some people but I don’t believe it’s the universal rule people make it out to be.
In my experience it most efficiently explains lower and middle managers who were internal promotions from the ranks of non-supervisory or regular staff.
In some jobs, like academia, you will run out of regular promotions and will just end up plateauing, especially in salary. The only way out of this is to become a manager of some sorts: department head, assistant manager, section head, project manager, etc. or to do a lateral transfer to a different job where you can renegotiate salary, benefits, and job description. Or in the case of true academics, supplement income with book tours, speaking fees, consulting, etc.
Some of the worst managers I’ve encountered were people who had been doing their jobs for about a decade and needed that “promotion” to management to get a raise or move away from a job they physically or emotionally couldn’t do anymore.
But bad managers are a bell curve with MBAs and career management types on one end and “Bob, who finally got that promotion” on the other.
The Peter principle is a concept in management developed by Laurence J. Peter which observes that people in a hierarchy tend to rise to “a level of respective incompetence”: employees are promoted based on their success in previous jobs until they reach a level at which they are no longer competent, as skills in one job do not necessarily translate to another.
Thank you for telling me that the Peter principle wasn’t named after Peter Griffin
The Peter Principle is a concept where people get promoted up to their highest level of incompetence.
If you’re good at your job, you get promoted. If you keep being good, you keep getting promoted. But eventually you land in a position that you’re not good at.
They can’t fire you, because it would mean they have to fire hegseth with his “flawless opsec”
“Simple Sabotage Field Manual” by United States. Office of Strategic Services is a historical publication written during the early 1940s, amid World War II. This manual acts as a guide for ordinary civilians to conduct simple acts of sabotage against enemy operations without the need for specialized training or equipment. Its main topic revolves around promoting small, accessible forms of resistance that could collectively disrupt the enemy’s war effort.
context: today is may 1st and we were all supposed to strike today.
that’s why context is important, OP. please don’t assume everyone knows what you know. the information in our heads is different from the information in your head. it’s called theory of mind and most people develop it in early childhood. idiot.
I didn’t know this. I didn’t see any indication that OP knew this (or to the contrary). Maybe you should practice what you preach.
I’m so confused what you are responding to
Every day is a good day to strike against oppressive establishment.
If I somehow live to reach retirement, I’m not going to retire. I’m just going to go on permanent strike.
A LOT of russian and NK soldiers are doing this right now on the field with Ukraine. NONE of them want to be fighting Ukraine. Many defect. Especially at the beginning. Problem is sometimes they are returned as they are seen as “captives” in Ukraine according to Russia just to be returned to the front of the line. Which sucks hard.
